The Children’s Allergy and Asthma Data Repository (CADRE) is a centralized resource created to address a critical gap in asthma research: identifying the risk factors and biological mechanisms that lead to childhood asthma. By uniting data from various cohorts, CADRE empowers researchers to uncover insights that individual studies alone cannot provide.
Birth cohort studies have found early-life environmental factors such as allergens, pollutants, viruses and bacteria have all contributed to the development of asthma.
CADRE brings together data from NIH funded allergy and asthma cohort studies to harmonize data for future collaborative studies. We leverage data collected through the Children’s Respiratory and Environmental Workgroup (CREW) and have established robust data-sharing and review procedures.
Why CADRE Matters
Individual cohort studies are often limited by small sample sizes and localized populations.
Important differences in asthma prevalence and outcomes can go undetected.
Harmonizing data across studies is complex — but essential for meaningful discovery.
What CADRE Offers
- A robust foundation built on the large CREW data set.
- Integration of additional allergy and asthma birth and infant cohort data.
- A streamlined, user-friendly platform for accessing and analyzing harmonized data.
- CADRE is more than a data repository — it’s a collaborative engine for discovery and innovation in childhood asthma research.
